the snap general election thread

Yah_Boo_Sux

Arklight wrote: »

Your dairy farmer would struggle a lot less under a Labour government than a Tory one.

Do you think? That's not what recent history says. This is from 2009 - Gordon Brown's time. The title? "Crisis deepens for dairy farmers"

Stephen Oldfield of PricewaterhouseCoopers is left scratching his head: "One of the things that puzzles me is that we actually import liquid milk. "I find that really bizarre, given that we have got farmers in the UK that can produce British milk for the British consumer."
This is a nationwide problem. Dairies have been shut down in Wales, the East and North East of England hundreds of jobs lost, the milk supply chain fractured. If there is no local dairy, there is nowhere for farmers to send their milk.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8103325.stm

Enterprise_1701C

Arklight wrote: »

Again, a land tax is taxation calculated against the value of the unimproved land not the amount of it that you own.

If you don't have many assets you won't pay much tax.

How is that not fair?

The amount of land you own is directly related to the value, unless they are planning to say they will assume everyone has the nominal 1/8th of an acre and tax it on that.

Thrugelmir

Arklight wrote: »

If they'd spent those two years doing their jobs, rather than looking for ways to repeatedly undermine their boss and the party membership, we would be on course for a win on Thursday.

Perhaps they've known JC long enough not to be sucked in by the media coverage. Great actors are simply full of words. Off screen they are more often or not somewhat different to their public personna.

Arklight

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Perhaps they've known JC long enough not to be sucked in by the media coverage. Great actors are simply full of words. Off screen they are more often or not somewhat different to their public personna.

On Thursday you'll be voting for your local MP. Some of them on the ballot paper will care about public services, the NHS, investment in infrastructure and the environment.

One of them will be intending to frack the Home Counties. cut tax for the rich, reinstate gangs of idiots galloping over what remains of the countryside killing foxes, leave the police and the military undermanned, and sell off the NHS.

I guess you'll have to go with your conscience.

bobbymotors

wotsthat wrote: »

You can only get 18/1 now.

Has someone let Boris out of his box?

no, still 28/1 on betfair

wotsthat

bobbymotors wrote: »

no, still 28/1 on betfair

Labour overall majority I'm looking at 18/1 on Betfair right now. Not sure what I'm missing.

mystic_trev

wotsthat wrote: »

Labour overall majority I'm looking at 18/1 on Betfair right now. Not sure what I'm missing.

Odd? I've just looked and it's 29/1

StevieJ

How do the bookies price individual constituencies? Chester the most marginal is 5/2 Labour , Tory 1/3. Do they commission individual polling or just go off the overall country position? It really wouldn't surprise if the sitting Labour MP held the seat as he is very popular and hardworking.

Yah_Boo_Sux

mystic_trev wrote: »

Odd? I've just looked and it's 29/1

Does anyone remember The Twilight Zone?

That doesn't fit with whosit's biases see?
You can't let fact get in the way of belligerence.

masterwilde

serious question, if tories scrao through with less than a majority of 6 or get a hung parliament, will theresa may remain at the top? or will the party call for her resignation?